• amio@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Oh, VS is not “little”, it’s one of the bloatiest pieces of software on earth.

      Also, Forms? How dare you. :p

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        1 year ago

        Once upon a time, a content management system for microsoft.com was a plug in for VS. And also a plug in for Word. And these two plugins had different feature sets, so you had to use both to manage content on microsoft.com. Don’t ask how I know.

      • blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk
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        1 year ago

        Can confirm. Have had to download the full VS 2022 Pro over a shit wifi connection at work 55GB. It took half a day then failed. Re run the command to recheck every package and get the missing / broken ones and it is a single threaded app so it takes forever computing file hashes on one thread.

        In the end it took around 7.5 hours.

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            1 year ago

            Everything. It’s going on a network not connected to the internet so I don’t want to exclude something and have go through the faff of getting extra bits that end up being needed.

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              1 year ago

              Fair enough! Not terribly surprised about the size then, though - there’s a lot of stuff VS can do. When limited to just a few workloads you need the size isn’t unreasonable in my opinion though.

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        1 year ago

        It’s not so bad in the newer version. The switch x64 and put of process architecture helps a decent amount.

        I always have a pretty beefy dev machine though.

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      1 year ago

      My boss: add this field to this old form.

      Me: open the form, add my field. Now VS crashes. I have to open the form code in a different editor and delete all the code VS added to the form when I opened it in the form editor.

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        1 year ago

        Oh, so it hasn’t changed since I used VS6 back in the early 2000s (bought at the auto parts market from Russians on an almost transparent CD)